This is not the game it should have been
The Good:
Great graphics for a Wii game, character animations are pretty nice. Great music, great selection from all the different games. Nintendo did a good job with the roster, except some characters seemed unneccesary.
The Bad:
God Awful story mode if you could call it one. The cutscenes might have looked nice, but didn't make a bit of sense until you read what the story actually was online. Tedious, repetitive, and simple, the story mode was a nap which then led to the final boss which then became overly difficult. And then the character roster. Contrary to what everyone else says, the character list is extremely unbalanced, with certain characters maintaining a substantial advantage, and other characters being so underpowered that they are barely playable. I found this to be a major error in the game, and following the huge hype this was a major dissapointment. Next we must look at the levels. Many of the new levels were simply not fun to play with, end of story. Then some of the new features seemed tacked on and unneccessary, such as the stickers which were only used in the "story mode". The stage creator is incredibly shallow, with a narrow range of peripherals to use to create stages. The achievments also seemed tacked on, requiring tedious replaying of certain aspects, such as the Boss Battles mode which is near impossible because of the Final Boss on the hardest difficulty. The game has been slowed down substantially as well, catering more to the young'uns of today.
So in conclusion, despite all the hype, all the defense from the wii fanboys and little kids, we must learn to see the game for what it actually is, an overhyped dissapointment to Nintendo's original fanbase, the fanbase that Iwata himself stated the company will not cater to anymore. We must come to realize the truth, which is that Nintendo is no longer supporting the veteran gamers, but rather the newer casual audience, when we look at Super Smash Bros Brawl, we can see a game that had the potential to be amazing, but in order to appeal to a more casual audience, lost the grandeur that made people enjoy smash brothers games in the first place.